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CA Chorus Software Manager

UPS Experience

March 12, 2014

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UPS GBS – IS: Transaction And Message Systems Programming

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Agenda

• Installation History at UPS

• Environment

─ Mainframe Configuration

─ CSM Installation & Configuration

─ CSM SMP/E Environment

─ CSM Runtime Environment

• Customer Enhancement Requests (DAR)

• CSM-Enabled Products

• Deployment Management

• Recommendations

• Conclusion



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Installation History at UPS

• 10/2009 2.0 Review/Installation

• 02/2010 2.0 Product Install

• 08/2010 3.0 Product Install (New Install)

Deployment Manager Exploitation

Single File System Allocation

SMP/E options added (Receive, Apply Check, Apply, Groupextend)

• 02/2011 3.1 Product Install (New Install)

CA RS Processing

• 03/2012 4.1 Upgrade (Data Migration)

CA MSM Resource Center

Maintenance Usability Enhancements

• 02/2013 5.1 Upgrade (Data Migration)

Deployment Cloning

Download Maintenance Only!



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• 4 Sysplexes

2 Production

Consisting of 18 LPARs

1 Development


1 Stress


• 3 MonoPlexes

2 Production

1 Development

Mainframe Environments at UPS



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• JESINTERFACELEVEL=2 using OMVS to install.

• We let SMS do all the “heavy lifting” during the build

process.

• CSM address spaces primarily reside on DVLP LPAR

and can be moved to any of the 3 development LPARs

by modifying the “context.xml” file in

/msmruntime/tomcat/conf/

• Starting with MSM 3.0 & again with 4.0, we had to apply

maintenance to Common Services 12.x (CETN300,

CETN400). By the time we upgraded to 5.1, Common

Services was at release 14.1 and required no additional

maintenance.

CSM Installation & Configuration




• Starting with MSM 4.1, we noticed our OMVS “high water marks” increasing

from the MSM requests. As a result: We Modified the following OMVS

parameters:

─ MSM 4.1 increased MAXMMAPAREA from 4096 to 40960

─ MSM 5.1 increased SHRLIBRGNSIZE from 67108864 to 157386400

─ MSM 5.1 increased IPCMSGNIDS from 500 to 1000

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• Starting with MSM 4.1 and with CSM 5.1, the Data Migration Utility was used to

upgrade the existing product inventory.

• Initial Upgrade to CSM 5.1, we changed from JAVA 6.01 31bit to JAVA 7.0

31Bit and experienced “Out of Memory” during initial load of the logon screen.

Worked with support and down leveled to JAVA 6.01 64Bit. Problem resolved.

• Upgraded to JAVA 7.01 64Bit. No issues…………………….

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Runtime Environment

Unique file system for each release of CSM:

Type Perm Changed-EST5EDT Owner ------Size Filename

_ Dir 775 2013-07-05 10:39 OMVS 8192 .

_ Dir 775 2011-10-07 12:12 SYS1CJD 608 ..

_ Dir 775 2013-03-08 13:28 SYS1CJD 8192 deploy

_ Dir 775 2013-04-04 10:19 OMVS 384 mpm

_ Dir 775 2013-04-10 10:20 OMVS 8192 msmtmp

_ Dir 775 2011-03-03 14:52 OMVS 256 v3r0

_ Dir 775 2011-03-07 12:11 OMVS 256 v3r1

_ Dir 775 2012-02-21 07:37 SYS1CJD 672 v4r1

_ Dir 775 2013-04-10 09:37 SYS1CJD 8192 v5r1



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SMP/E Environment

We build a new SMP/E environment for each release of CSM:

EUID=1008 /smpe/ca/msm/

Type Perm Changed-EST5EDT Owner ------Size Filename

_ Dir 775 2013-03-07 14:43 SYS1CJD 8192 .

_ Dir 775 2012-02-15 14:26 SYS1CJD 672 ..

_ Dir 775 2011-03-02 14:30 SYS1CJD 256 v3r0

_ Dir 775 2011-03-02 14:30 SYS1CJD 256 v3r1

_ Dir 775 2012-01-10 10:59 SYS1CJD 256 v4r1

_ Dir 775 2013-03-07 14:46 SYS1CJD 8192 v5r1



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Customer Enhancement Requests (DAR)

• SMP/E Receive, Apply Check and Apply

In MSM 2.0, SMP/E was limited to an install function. Receive, Apply

Check, and Apply all in one action.

• CA RS Maintenance Package & Receive (available

with 6.x)

Currently, CA RS is limited to reporting recommended service. A request

was submitted to enhance CA RS with download and receive options.

• Data Set Allocation – Deployment (considered)

The current deployment feature transmits and allocates data sets in bytes

ONLY! No option available to customize the allocation.



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CSM Enabled Products Installed at UPS:

• Currently, 26 CA products are installed on UPS Mainframes.

• 21 are Installed and Managed in CSM.

• With the opportunity to migrate/manage 5 DB2 Utilities.

• CSM is managed by z/OS and third party software support team.

• CSM accessible to all mainframe software support groups.



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Deployment & Configuration

• Leveraging TCPIP.

• Deploy to 4 SYSPLEXES & 3 Mono Plexes.

• Deployments are scheduled to staging libraries with

Legacy Procedures for “RUNTIME” population.

• We “DO NOT” utilize Software Configuration Services.



Deployment – System Registry

We are CCI-registered to 1 LPAR on each Plex.

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Deployment - Methodologies

• Maintain a separate “Methodology” for each product. We use a “standard”

SMS-Managed HLQ.

• Choice of:

Create

Create or Update

Replace

Since our deployment data sets are for “staging purposes”, they should never be

“in use” by another user, so we use the “REPLACE” option.

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Deployment – Methodologies

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Recommendations

• Stay as current as possible with JAVA JRE.

• Always stay current with CA Common Services.

• Use “Prerequisite Validation”.

• Monitor your OMVS “System Wide Settings”. CSM 5.1 had a substantial

impact on these settings.



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Conclusion

• Substantially cuts down on the amount of time to bring a product to production.

• Little training required. Whether new to SMP/E product delivery and

maintenance or experienced, CSM offers the flexibility to bring a product to

production in a fraction of the time. CSM offers the experienced programmer

flexibility to manage the outcome.

• CSM has grown immensely since 2.0 and offers a complete service from

ordering a product through production implementation.

• “Browser Friendly”



Questions ?

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Thank You

Carl D’Antonio

United parcel Service

[email protected]

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